Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Lily Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What metrics can you provide about how you’ve built your business from 2016 to 2020? How has your business grown? Lily Stoyanov: Exponentially. Our business grew through very strong partnerships. We have usually more than 100% growth per month. This is happening because we identify the right partners.

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Lily Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the PR angle to this? Lily Stoyanov: We have an HR suite. The freelance marketplace is just one of the modules. We have freelancer/contingent workforce management software, which is something that comes after you hire freelancers from the freelance marketplace to manage the relationship with them over time and to use

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Sramana Mitra: Now that I understand a bit better of what your technology is capable of doing, can you go back and explain to me what is the usage model of your customers? Let’s say a university buys your product. You started off by saying that universities don’t always have enough faculty to build an

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